The road to decarbonization will be paved with many tradeoffs.
Sreyas Chintapalli, a PhD candidate in the lab of Susanna Thon, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and associate director of the Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI), is helping Maryland make the right ones as state leaders implement some of the country’s most ambitious climate initiatives.
To achieve a net-zero carbon economy by 2045, the state has mandated that by 2028, at least 14.5% of electricity sold in Maryland must be derived from solar resources. Chintapalli is lending his technical expertise to the state’s Solar Photovoltaic Systems Recovery, Reuse, and Recycling Working Group as they seek to understand the challenges related to the increased adoption of solar photovoltaics.